Note: I cut back the CC list to people I think are still following this thread.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2026, 8:08 AM Levi Dubrovin <[email protected]> wrote: > My second philosophical question: what is faith? And what is hope? > When you hear a statement 3 times, it is truth. When you hear it 100 times, it is faith. Hope is when you believe what you wish to be true instead of what the evidence says is true. As animals, we fear death because that behavior increases reproductive fitness. So when your priest or rabbi or imam says that your immortal soul will go to heaven if you follow his teachings, and not the evidence that consciousness is indistinguishable from next token prediction in the Turing test, that is hope. ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T9e51fc70bbc4e9fc-M5f0ac8352580f7f5498aa4b8 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
